The phrase 'place barriers' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are referring to something that is hindering progress or making something difficult. For example: "The language barrier placed huge obstacles between the two countries in negotiating a new treaty."
Many countries place barriers to women's inheritance of property.
Refugee advocates said Trump's latest action continued to place barriers before the most vulnerable of populations.
To place barriers between these people and what is clearly a less deadly maintenance approach is morally repugnant.
The system uses cryptography extensively to place barriers against illegal sharing of copyrighted material, the kind of trading that got the Napster music-swapping service into legal trouble.
That conjunction has made it far easier for the President to achieve his agenda than for concerned citizens to place barriers in his path.
French women have mostly learnt how to cope and how to place barriers between what is playful and what is serious.
But he said he did not support placing barriers outside the clinic to prevent protesters from making contact with women.
Encourage flexibility, exchange ideas and share experience, instead of placing barriers of regulation and envy in the way of a career path.
The Transportation Department and the 34th Street Partnership, the local Business Improvement District, finished placing barriers on Broadway and Avenue of the Americas between 34th and 33rd Streets and in certain lanes yesterday.
Julie Moktadir, chief executive of Independent Parental Special Education Advice (Ipsea), a charity offering advice to parents of children with disabilities on how to get the right education, says local authorities often "placed barriers" because of financial constraints.
A senior Nepalese mountaineering official has suggested placing barriers such as those used in European ski resorts to safeguard holidaymakers, high on Everest to help prevent avalanches like that which killed 16 local guides eight days ago.
